Archive for January 2011

A quick but sub-threshold (mostly) hot lap of Williamstown. With some refinement, this could be a solid training loop. There are worse ways to wrap up a day than slicing through the night along the lapping sea, Melbourne a bunch of blinking bokeh on the horizon too.

And we have a new car. It’s nice. Lots of room for kettlebells and bikes and bike stuff and tents and tent stuff. And suuuuper comfy, warmed seats for returning feeling to frozen buns on the way home from winter races.

Getting up with the clock reading 5 is starting to feel normal. Slipped out of the house like a ninja and met a vastly diminished (I’m told) Somerville Road bunch. Six became four when two split to wind out some longer miles along beach road. Wanting to know the local circuit, I stayed with the the men who had wives and children to get back to.

The rain held off for most of the ride and though the pace wasn’t challenging, the Farnsworth Ave hill repeats (numbering five) were enough to remind me of Charmichael’s advice on pre-training snacks. “The most important aspect of any pre-training food is that it be out of your stomach by the time training begins.” This time I wasn’t giggling.

We beat the rain back to the start point atop Somerville Road bridge, but without even an hour elapsed I settled into a rhythm out to Williamstown through the soft drizzle, sighted the Bay and pushed hard and homeward.

I’d intended to get out on the road early for a couple of steady hours, but when Claire woke me up at 4:30 I felt as if I was in decline. I coughed, brought her into bed with us, laid down and, listening to the rain on the steel roof, decided that sleep was the better option.

I’m going to try spreading each 3-day CF.com cycle across a week as my weight room conditioning, maybe throw in a few extras for specifics, and see how that goes for a while. The plan is just to scale conservatively compared with a straight CF-only diet.

Just like it says on the box. Jumped on the trainer and did the Spinnervals Aerobic Base Builder #4 DVD. Lots of variation to keep it from getting too boring, and for a sub-LT session it contained some reasonably hard work. (Or is it that I’m just a ways of where I need to be?)